Farm Buildings Complex And Adjoining Three Hop Kilns And Animal Shelter Attached To North-West Corner Of Stone House

A farm buildings complex, three hop kilns, and an animal shelter, dating probably to the 18th century and mid-19th century, with late 19th-century additions, are situated attached to the north-west corner of Stone House. The complex comprises two ranges arranged north/south and east/west.

The north/south range likely incorporates fragments of an earlier farmhouse. The section closer to Stone House is timber-framed, extended in the mid-19th century northwards to align with the earlier part. The range is built of coursed sandstone rubble with asbestos roofs. It has a longitudinal plan with two levels and ten or fourteen windows. The east elevation, facing the farmyard, has a left section with a rubble ground storey and a timber-framed upper floor, featuring brick infill panels in two rows to the wall-plate and three square-shaped loft openings with three evenly spaced entrances. To the right is a slightly advanced section with a higher roof line, containing four square first-floor openings and five segmentally headed ground-floor openings with stone tallet stairs leading to a mid-19th-century ledged door, positioned to the left of the right-hand first-floor opening. Three late 19th-century square hop kilns with pyramidal slate and felt roofs, each with louvred gabled ventilators, are attached to the north end of this range, with a larger kiln to the west side. Adjacent to the kiln is a westerly projecting mid-19th-century animal shelter, partially timber-framed with brick infill, weatherboarded, and with a tiled king post roof.

The interior of the 18th-century timber-framed section features six roofing bays with mainly mid-19th-century king post trusses. The north part contains twelve bays with pegged mid-19th-century king posts above curved principals with ashlar pieces.

The east/west range, likely mainly mid-19th century, has continuous coursed rubble walls to the south, framing Stone House. This range has three phases with a plain tiled roof to the west part and slate roofs to the centre and east parts. The south elevation features a central entrance and steeply pitched roof; a front brick stack is near the junction with Stone House. A low entrance is visible in the west gable. The interior of this range contains mid-19th-century king post trusses.

The north and west ranges, along with the animal shelter and hop kilns, form an interesting and largely intact hop farm complex.